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Social Returns to Education; Evidence From Italian Local Labor Market Areas
Dalmazzo, A.; Blasio, Guido De - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003
for individual characteristics, local average human capital is positively correlated with individual wages, with estimated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248310
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Dissecting saving dynamics : measuring wealth, precautionary, and credit effects
Carroll, Chris; Slacalek, Jirka; Sommer, Martin - 2012
We argue that the U.S. personal saving rate's long stability (from the 1960s through the early 1980s), subsequent steady decline (1980s - 2007), and recent substantial increase (2008 - 2011) can all be interpreted using a parsimonious 'buffer stock' model of optimal consumption in the presence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009622528
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A Real Model of Transitional Growth and Competitiveness in China
Lipschitz, Leslie - 2008
increases in employment and output rather than only in wages; and (2) even though the domestic saving rate is high, foreign …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677576
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Impact of Trade on Wages : What If Countries Are Not Small?
Saito, Mika - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012691056
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Public-Private Wage Differentials and Interactions Across Countries and Time
Abdallah, Chadi - 2023
We compile a novel database on average public and private sector wages and public-private wage differentials, which we … counter-cyclically, increasing during economic downturns, and increases prior to elections. Both private sector wages and … inflation respond positively to changes in public wages, albeit with significant heterogeneity in the effects across countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015059582
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Regionalization vs. globalization
Hirata, Hideaki; Kose, M. Ayhan; Otrok, Christopher M. - 2013
Abstract: Both global and regional economic linkages have strengthened substantially over the past quarter century. We employ a dynamic factor model to analyze the implications of these linkages for the evolution of global and regional business cycles. Our model allows us to assess the roles...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009707567
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Global Impact of the Systemic Economies and MENA Business Cycles.
Cashin, Paul - 2012
This paper analyzes spillovers from macroeconomic shocks in systemic economies (China, the Euro Area, and the United States) to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region as well as outward spillovers from a GDP shock in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries and MENA oil exporters to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012690165
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How Different Is the Cyclical Behavior of Home Production Across Countries?.
Kose, M. Ayhan - 2006
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Volatility of Development Aid : From the Frying Pan Into the Fire?
Bulir, Ales - 2006
Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. VOLATILITY AND PREDICTABILITY OF AID: WHAT EXACTLY IS THE ISSUE? -- III. DATA AND MEASUREMENT ISSUES -- IV. MEASURING THE VARIABILITY OF AID: THREE APPROACHES -- V. CONCLUSIONS AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS -- REFERENCES.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012691019
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Role of Interest Rates in Business Cycle Fluctuations in Emerging Market Countries : The Case of Thailand
Tchakarov, Ivan - 2006
Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. INTEREST RATES AND BUSINESS CYCLES -- III. THE GLOBAL ECONOMY MODEL WITH THE FINANCIAL ACCELERATOR -- IV. THE EFFECTS OF A 1 PERCENT U.S. INTEREST RATE HIKE -- V. A REPEAT OF THE GLOBAL BOND MARKET ROUT OF 1994? -- VI. WHAT ROLE FOR MONETARY POLICY? --...
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